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82) Adolf Hitler
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac.
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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
86) Y/N: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her K-pop idol Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye, the narrator, a Korean American woman living in Berlin, acts on her obsession, arriving in Seoul where she searches for the object of her love until she finds him at long last as art and real life converge.
87) Pegasus: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children - Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother"--
90) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly.
After...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother"--
94) Germany
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages : color photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers discover the complex history of Germany and how geography, government, and economics have worked together to help shape the culture of this country in this comprehensive look at one of Europe's most powerful nations. Readers interested in activism will be inspired by content relating to the concept of global citizenship. Those with an interest in travel are sure to enjoy fact boxes that highlight helpful German phrases for travelers and essential...
95) Black cross
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
An American doctor and a Jewish soldier embark on a perilous mission into Nazi Germany to ensure a D-Day victory for Allied forces by uncovering a doomsday weapon and committing a soul-destroying act of devastation
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
98) Afterlives
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
99) The German wife
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that employed former Nazis after WWII. Berlin, Germany, 1930—When the Nazis rise to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and her academic husband benefit from the military ambitions of Germany’s newly elected chancellor when Jürgen is offered a high-level position...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of a Brothers Grimm tale, Frankie Flip Phone is joined by other tossed-out devices eager to become famous musicians in the town of Bremen, but they soon visit a repair shop and discover hackers trying to shut down the internet.